Tour Prologue: The Delgados Live 2023

Much-loved Glasgow band The Delgados are finally returning after a 17-year hiatus, with a five-date tour of the UK next January. Formed in 1994, the influential four-piece – and their renowned record label Chemikal Underground – would play a central role in Glasgow’s flourishing alternative music scene, releasing five acclaimed studio albums before disbanding in 2005. The Delgados were nominated for a Mercury Music Prize in 2000 for their third album ‘The Great Eastern’; ‘The Light Before We Land’ would become the opening theme for cult anime series Gunslinger Girl; and ‘Pull the Wires From the Wall’ took the coveted #1 spot on John Peel’s annual Festive Fifty listeners poll in 1998, with the revered DJ amongst the band’s most vocal fans. A blistering and brilliant live act, their original line-up remains unchanged: Stewart Henderson (bass), Emma Pollock (guitar & vocals), Paul Savage (drums) and Alun Woodward (guitar & vocals), bolstered by a full complement of strings, brass, keyboard